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There are 5 total results for your 得道 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

得道

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dé dào
    de2 dao4
te tao
 tokudou / tokudo
    とくどう
to achieve the Dao; to become an immortal
(noun/participle) attaining salvation; (given name) Noriyori
To obtain the way, or the religion; by obedience to the commandments, practice of meditation, and knowledge, to attain enlightenment.

初得道

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chū dé dào
    chu1 de2 dao4
ch`u te tao
    chu te tao
 sho tokudō
first attains the way

得道多助

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dé dào duō zhù
    de2 dao4 duo1 zhu4
te tao to chu
a just cause enjoys abundant support (idiom); those upholding justice will find help all around

得道多助,失道寡助

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dé dào duō zhù , shī dào guǎ zhù
    de2 dao4 duo1 zhu4 , shi1 dao4 gua3 zhu4
te tao to chu , shih tao kua chu
A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (idiom, from Mencius)

一人得道,雞犬升天


一人得道,鸡犬升天

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yī rén - dé dào , jī quǎn - shēng tiān
    yi1 ren2 - de2 dao4 , ji1 quan3 - sheng1 tian1
i jen - te tao , chi ch`üan - sheng t`ien
    i jen - te tao , chi chüan - sheng tien
lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom); fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 5 results for "得道" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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